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Harsh Reviews Of The Dual Track Rail Crossing Bridges; What’s Your Opinion?


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1 hour ago, webfact said:

‘’I also want to know why they have to make horseshoes so close to a straight crossing?”

In the top photo the straight crossing is blocked off.  I'm not sure why they couldn't have just made a straight bridge over the tracks.

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2 minutes ago, rwill said:

In the top photo the straight crossing is blocked off.  I'm not sure why they couldn't have just made a straight bridge over the tracks.

I am guessing the total length of the straight bridge would have to be much longer if they wanted to make it as high as the shoe horse, otherwise the climb would be steep.

 

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Horseshoe Bridges ?  It's all to do with right of way, and not wishing to expropriate extra land !

As for Construction Specification, well that's up to the SRT construction Supervisor

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OH YEAH!! I can see this semi-circle becoming a Thai drifters wet-dream with nightly Lao Khao sessions and drifters smokin' the heck outa this site ! ????????????????

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Are these crossings ugly   Yes

Will they be accepted by motorists  Who Knows

If Thai's can't manage to cross a Single level crossing, without death and mayhem

What are their chances of survival with Double tracks

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Why not the reverse.

A train bridge over the highway. If such bridges can cross deep valleys (ie., the Chenab Bridge in India), surely it's doable crossing roadways at ground level. But something like that takes innovation and imagination. Not Thailand's strongest suit.

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To buy out the properties  next to the tracks to build a straight overpass rail crossing would have cost way

too much for the instant valuable properties. You do know that this is Thailand we are talking about right?

using the U turn design was a cost savings by using right of way land besides the railway tracks.

 

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3 hours ago, brianthainess said:

Going by the Photos these bridges seem unnecessarily high for normal trains even with containers on.

As with everything else here, they like to overstack things, so better be safe ????

 

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1 hour ago, kotsak said:

As with everything else here, they like to overstack things, so better be safe ????

 

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The guy on top is to lift power cables over the load, hence the safety flip flops :shock1:

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Would seem to be more sensible to put the train on a bridge, no need for extra land, or to reroute the roads, and helps prevent animals and humans getting on the tracks.

 

Worked for 150 years in the UK!

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9 hours ago, Mitkof Island said:

There was never a need for any of the stupid dangerous eyesores called over passes. Travel a little farther and  a road crossing as before. Total corruption and the biggest boondoggle in Thailand history. Tear down that fracking eyesore.

So an overcross across the rail lines are not needed in places where a town is cut in half by the ral lines and the only way to cross is either over the actual rails where safety is an issue. Also there are very few lights at road crossings and is why there are u-turns where accidents occur daily. What Thailand needs is more traffic lights at these cross intersections and U-Turn locations ergo why the horseshoe bridges over the tracks....Safety from being hit by the soon to come high speed trains.

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Actually, in Udon currently traffic lights are the new 'must have' road improvement. If you know Udon, the Muang thong fruit and vegetable market had an incredibly dangerous U-turn from one direction - now has working traffic lights since last week. Also seen a couple of other U-turns get traffic lights, but surprise surprise, on these lesser U-turns have already experienced red light runners.

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I rode across one of these yesterday on a motorcycle at Patio (the nearest station to Chumphon airport).  It's like a rollercoaster.  Unpleasant in the dry and most likely hazardous in the wet.  At the moment the road surface is bare concrete.

 

They are also replacing the rather quaint old station with a huge concrete box station.  A complete waste of money given that on a good day probably ten passengers embark/disembark at this station.

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